| State of Damage in Higashimatsushima City |
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| 1. Scale of the earthquake etc. |
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| Date and time of occurrence | March 11th 2011, at 14:46:18.1 |
| Epicenter | approximately 130km east off the shore of the Oshika Penninsula in Sanriku |
| Hypocenter underwater level | approximately 24K |
| Scale | magnitude of 9.0 |
| Seismic intensity in the city | 6 (reference: maximum 7 in north of Miyagi prefecture) |
| Tsunami (1st wave) | inundation height of 10.35m in Nobiru Coast 5.77m in Omagari beach |
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| 2. Human Casualties (as of January 1st 2014) |
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Fatalities
(Higashimatsuyama residents) | 1,109 (including fatalities outside the city) |
| Number of people missing | 25 |
| Number of corpses found in Higashimatsuyama city | 1,066 (Higashimatsuyama City residents 963, others 102, one unidentified victim) |
| Number of temporary burials | 369
(Setting up of public cemetery
[address Oshio Aza Hikisawa (former Kanan Area Health and Safety Center)]
Temporary burials (in ground) started from March 20th 2011. ) |
| Number of people registered in Basic Residential Registration as of end of February 2011 | 43,142 people |
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| 3. Damage to Residential buildings (December 31st 2013) |
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| State of damage report issue |
| Completely destroyed houses | 5,513 |
| partially destroyed houses (incl. large scale damage) | 3,060 |
| partial damage | 6,006 |
| total number of damaged residential buildings | 14,579 |
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* Breakdown of residential buildings completely destroyed: Washed away buildings 1,264 Completely destroyed buildings 4,249
* There were 15,080 households as of the end of February 2011
The percentage of residential buildings with severe damage (greater than partial damage) was 73.4%
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| 4. State of Damage to Social Infrastructure |
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| Electricity | approximately 2 weeks for completely recovery ( Miyato area took about 3 months due to the severe damage caused by the tsunami) |
| Waterworks | more than 2 weeks for partial recovery ( Miyato area took more than 3 months) |
| Land | recovery after about 2 weeks |
| Mobile phones | approximately 7 days for recovery depending on company and communicable area |
| JR Senseki line | started substitute transportation service with buses between Ishinomaki and Matsushima Kaigan station on 5th april 2011.
From 16th July 2011 restarted diesel train service between Ishinomaki and Yamoto station.
Substitute bus service ongoing between Yamoto and Matsushima Kaigan station.
(complete recovery of line expected from June 2015) |
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| 5. Others |
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| Evacuation shelters | 106 sites
* All the evacuation sites were closed by August 31st 2011 |
| Peak in number of evacuees | 15,185 (March 16th 2011) |
| Volume of waste materials caused by the disaster | 1,098,000t
(more than 100 year's amount of normal (household) waste)
* Manual sorting work operation finished December 20th 2013 |
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| Taken from "Higashi Matsusima City Record on Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami" (excerpt) |
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